We’re back to service as normal – except for one small omissions (oops). On this week’s show we look at the first part of Hiroshi Inagaki’s classic trilogy “Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto”, Alex Cox’s “Sid & Nancy”, a Werner Rainer Fassbinder double bill of “Fox & His Friends” and “Chinese […]
Books
Literary Loitering 47 – Anglo-Saxon Trolling
UNESCO have finally listed the Exeter Book as a principal cultural artefact. In other news, researchers prove that Batman is the most ill-equipped superhero, and William S. Burroughs reading The Naked Lunch will be released as an experimental punk album. Our featured book is the short story anthology Mash Up […]
Literary Loitering 45 – Tickle That Catastrophe
It’s an assortment of oddments this week with Walt Whitman’s recently rediscovered 47,000 word treatise “Manly Health and Fitness”, scientists arguing that the Borrowers couldn’t exist in reality and more. We also some alternative insults from Shakespearean works. Our featured book is Clash of Eagles by Alan Smale (book 1 […]
S12E18 – Proletariat Eyebrow
Meandering Mic – Andrew Bannister (Creation Machine)
Science fiction is a strange genre that’s part logic, part wild imagination and thoroughly engrossing when done well. Many have tried to become true sci-fi storytellers but tend to fail when it comes to worldbuilding. So how about galaxy building instead? On this edition of Meandering Mic we talk to […]
Literary Loitering 44 – The Cronenberg Colouring Book
This week Producer Rob is doing cartwheels because one of his favourite fantasy novel franchises – The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan – is getting a “cutting edge TV series”. In amongst all the unhealthy acrobatics we discuss the “kingly” statue overlooking Tintagel Castle, the fate of Anish Kapoor’s […]
Literary Loitering 43 – Eye Protection is Important
In amongst the Dali diaries, more additions to Stieg Larsson’s Millenium series and our favourite childhood books, we found a story about a painting that, once seen, will never be forgotten. You have been warned. Our featured books are Firefly: The Gorram Shiniest Dictionary and Phrasebook in the ‘Verse and […]